Neuroscience Animations

From Eye to LGN

Brief description and instructions (DRAFT):

With this applet, you can trace the path that visual information travels from
the world to the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN) of the thalamus. The +
sign on the left side of the screen is where the person is looking and is,
therefore, the center of this person's visual world. Use the buttons at
the bottom of the screen to choose what you want to highlight, whether it be the
visual information that comes from right of the visual world or the information
that travels through the right eye. The information that comes from the
right of the visual world is always in red, and the information from the left is
in green. The information that travels to the nasal half of the retina is
always bright and the information that travels to the temporal half of the
retina is always dark.